Chapter 838: You Don’t Need to Inherit My Family’s Golden Finger (4)
Qi Yuanjiu slept for more than four hours and woke up refreshed. Qu Shichu helped him change the medicine. When he saw the medicines placed in the living room, he was so excited that he almost burst into tears in front of Qu Shichu.
"But how can you take so many things back with you?" Qu Shichu asked him a realistic question, "Only things you touch can travel back to your world with you, and you will travel to where you came from. You said you suddenly traveled through time on the battlefield, so a lot of things that obviously cannot appear in large quantities on the battlefield suddenly appeared around you. Wouldn't it be strange?"
The excitement on Qi Yuanjiu's face disappeared immediately. He looked at the well-packaged medicines in front of him, gritted his teeth, and said, "Can I get Miss Qu to help me unpack all these packaged medicines? Just pack them in a few plain cloth bags."
"Okay." Qu Shichu agreed, found a few cloth bags that were used to hold flour, and opened the boxes with Qi Yuanjiu.
By the time they had finished unpacking and sorting, several cloth bags were already filled. Qi Yuanjiu looked at those bags of medicine as if he had seen some treasure and was reluctant to take his eyes off them.
Finally, in the evening, after dinner, Qi Yuanjiu became anxious and fidgety, obviously very worried.
Qu Shichu finally couldn't stand it anymore and asked him to take the cloth bags containing medicine to the place where he appeared in the backyard forest and wait. Qi Yuanjiu naturally agreed hurriedly and sat in the place where he came last night. There were cloth bags hanging on his arms and even around his neck, but he sat there, eager to go home.
At twelve o'clock midnight, a white light flashed, and Qi Yuanjiu's figure suddenly disappeared, along with the medicines hanging on his body. The place was so quiet as if no one had ever appeared.
Qu Shichu waited for a while, but saw no visitors from other worlds, so he turned around and went back. After all, not people from other worlds travel through time every day. Sometimes no one comes for several days, half a month, or a month or two, and sometimes people come for one or two days, or three or four days in a row. It's hard to predict. It seems that the frequency of time travel is random.
Three days later, Qu Shichu picked up a skinny girl, about eleven or twelve years old, in the backyard. Her clothes were so tattered that she was almost naked and dirty. If it weren't for the small braid of hair that looked like dry grass behind her head, Qu Shichu would not have been able to tell that she was a girl.
She fainted two meters away from the space-time gate. After taking her pulse, Qu Shichu knew that she fainted from hunger, so he had to carry her back.
After giving her a glass of water and a bowl of millet porridge, the little girl finally woke up after a long while. As soon as she woke up and saw Qu Shichu, she immediately huddled up in the corner of the sofa, muttering in fear, "Don't hit me, don't hit me..."
Seeing her panic, Qu Shichu had to stay away from her and said softly, "Don't panic, I won't hit you. I also gave you some water and porridge. Do you feel less hungry now?"
After hearing her words, the little girl finally stopped begging. Her two big black eyes timidly peeked out from her skinny arms. She quickly looked at Qu Shichu and found that she was dressed neatly and had a gentle expression. She didn't look overbearing, so she finally relaxed a little.
Qu Shichu took out some more buns, put them in front of her, and said, "You just had a bowl of porridge, but I think you haven't filled your stomach yet, so these buns are for you."
When the little girl saw the steaming buns with the aroma of meat, her eyes stared at them with green light. She could not hide her greed at all and her hands were ready to move. If Qu Shichu had not been there, she would have snatched the buns away immediately.
But Qu Shichu was still here, so no matter how much she wanted the buns, she did not take any action. Instead, she looked at Qu Shichu with an inquiring look, as if she wanted to see if she really wanted to give the buns to her.
Qu Shichu saw that she was like a frightened cat, so he did not continue to ask about her origins. Instead, he told her: "You can eat some buns first. I will find some clothes for you to change into."
After she finished speaking, she went upstairs.
When the beggar-like girl saw her leave, she immediately rushed to the table, grabbed a bun with one hand, and began to eat it ravenously. She was reluctant to stop even though she choked and her eyes rolled back.
In a short while, she finished the four meat buns. After eating the buns, the girl became more energetic and began to look around vigilantly. After seeing her surroundings clearly, she did not hide her shocked expression at all, and her black eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
Qu Shichu came down with a new set of clothes. Seeing her being reserved and at a loss, he waved at her and said, "Come here, take a shower first."
The little girl didn't go over. She grabbed the tattered hem of her clothes with her fingers as thin as chicken claws and stammered, "Miss, it was you who saved me?"
"Yes, you broke into my backyard and fainted, so I had to bring you back." Qu Shichu nodded.
The little girl lowered her head and whispered: "I, I don't have any money..."
"I can see that. I don't want you to give me money. Just think of it as me doing charity." Qu Shichu sighed and said. This little girl was like a little beggar, fainting from hunger. She certainly didn't expect her to have money.
"You, you are those kind ladies and young ladies?!" The little girl looked up in surprise when she heard her words. The joy in her eyes that seemed particularly large because of her thinness almost overflowed. "I, I heard that there are some kind ladies and young ladies in Shanghai who are willing to donate money to buy food to help orphans..."
Qu Shichu raised her eyebrows. Shanghai Beach? This term specific to a certain period of time made her immediately understand the era in which this little girl lived.
"You guessed wrong. I'm not from Shanghai, but I do charity work occasionally, especially when I see people like you." Qu Shichu shook his head and said, "Okay, now that you know I have no bad intentions, come over and clean your body."
The little girl finally lost her wariness of her and walked over obediently.
Because she was still young and her brain seemed a little dull from being hungry for a long time, she still didn't understand how to use the bathroom after being taught several times. Qu Shichu had to help her wash her hair and demonstrated it before letting her take a bath by herself.
The little girl looked even more pitiful after taking a bath and changing her clothes. She was clearly wearing children's clothes, but it looked like she had stolen adult clothes and her body looked empty.
But after she washed, one could see that she had pretty features, but she was too thin, with skin covering just bones. One would worry that she would accidentally break her bones while walking.
(End of this chapter)
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